An innovative Japanese firm, Willcom, recently unveiled the availability of the lightest and smallest phone in the market. Called the Phone Strap 2, it is only as light as 32 grams and relatively tiny at 32 x 70 x 10.7 mm. Also, Willcom manages to trim the phone’s weight down by one gram. There are also a number of software-based …
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Future Smartphones
Most tablet and smartphone users know how hard it is to keep their display squeaky clean. Wiping it with across your shirt doesn’t always solve the problem. A newly released robot model, called the AutoMee-S, could be just what users are looking for. Like the well-known Roomba vacuum, it can automatically clean the front side of your smartphone. With the …
Latest display technologies have been cooking at Samsung’s labs for awhile now. At CES 2013, Samsung’s officials talked up latest display technologies, specifically the YOUM. The improved form of mobile display would deliver better contrast and color, while achieving super-thin form factor. A device prototype using the display is shown and it allows users to see content from the sides. …
Apple will soon refresh its iPad lineup with a new tablet model this year and this could be the iPad Mini 2. There’s also an indication that it will arrive to the market this March, along with the iPad 5. While the iPad Mini 2 will maintains the form factor of the current iPad Mini model, the iPad 5 could …
Nvidia CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang appeared on the CES to announce the upcoming Nvidia Tegra 4 system-on-chip for mobile devices. The new product proves that Nvidia won’t be messing around in this industry and it’s claimed that the new quad-core SoC will outperform anything currently available in the market, including Apple’s powerful A6X chipset. Nvidia Tegra chips have been used on …
It’s a guarantee that Samsung is a preparing a wide range of devices, although the company may not be planning to introduce a flagship in both CES 2013 and MWC 2013. After the GT-Q1000 was spotted moments after the New Year’s Day, another enigmatic handset called the GT-I9600 has also appeared on the NenaMark 2 benchmark results. The new device …
Glass may seem like a mundane material, but it has a vital role in 21st century technology including in the mobile industry. Its excellent transparency property never gets in the way of our visual enjoyment. Manufactured by Corning, the Gorilla Glass is widely considered by experts and consumers in the mobile industry as glass on steroids. The product has protected …
It is estimated that nearly 20 percent of children between 5 and 7 uses a phone. On the other hand, apps for kids are growing exponentially and many of them are designed to make them smarter. There are thousands of education apps available for download on various app stores. Children-oriented apps like “Wheels on the Bus” continue to become top …
Microsoft is developing a highly-efficient GPS solution that offloads heavy data crunching to the cloud-based services to get around the high power requirement. The CO-GPS (Cloud-Offloaded GPD) was first unveiled in the 10th ACM Conference. GPS antennas are typically the biggest power hog in mobile devices and it can run down the battery in a few hours when used constantly. …
If you keep on misplacing the car keys, future smartphones can help you unlock the door. Researchers at Hyundai have developed an innovative system that allows smartphones to work as car keys. The technology will be ready for commercial use within couple of years. Instead of Bluetooth, the method is based on NFC (New Field Communication), which allows users to …